Once a week, this retailer places a replenishment order with its supplier and receives a shipment.

The company also helps retailers place advertisements and markets video-on-demand programming.

A large retailer and a large telecommunications company have placed consolidated accounts in review.

Workers were leaving for Christmas, retailers had placed orders based on the original fabric and factories needed fabric to keep up production levels.

The retailer places an order with a supplier who fills the order from a foreign source.

Because last year's sales stripped shelves bare, distributors and retailers are placing orders much earlier.

When a retailer has placed an order with a manufacturer, he enters it on to a stock record card.

It is where retailers place their bets on merchandise for the year ahead.

"At the same time, retailers didn't place tremendous orders for this year, so there won't be so much product-leftover next spring."

When a retailer places an order, the factor buys the bill from the manufacturer at a slight discount and assumes the risk of collection.